“This doesn’t seem real. All of this — her death, the news stories, the little details that go with trying to plan for her remembrance,” wrote a woman who identified herself as Lewis-McFarlane’s daughter.

“Mom, we’ll try to give you everything you would have wanted. You didn’t deserve any of what happened, but you deserve a beautiful place to rest,” Jasmine Gavigan wrote.

Stephanie Dawber-Richards, who said she used to live next door to Lewis-McFarlane and her three children, said her friend will be sorely missed.

“Shirley, you are a fantastic woman and mother and will always be remembered for the remarkable woman you were,” she wrote.

“RIP Shirley, may your rays of happiness shine down on us and fill our lives with the joy you had.”

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